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FILE - ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio, left, and plaintiff Joaquin Carcano address reporters after a hearing, June 25, 2018, in Winston-Salem, N.C., on their lawsuit challenging the law that replaced North Carolina's
FILE - ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio, left, and plaintiff Joaquin Carcano address reporters after a hearing, June 25, 2018, in Winston-Salem, N.C., on their lawsuit challenging the law that replaced North Carolina's "bathroom bill." Carcano and other transgender plaintiffs argue the new law continues to discourage transgender people from using restrooms that match their gender identity. (AP Photo/Jonathan Drew, File)

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First transgender attorney to argue before the Supreme Court, challenging health care ban for minors

DEC. 2, 2024

Mohammad Mousawi, 8, a displaced boy from the southern suburb of Beirut who suffers from leukaemia, steps out the entrance of the Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Mohammad Mousawi, 8, a displaced boy from the southern suburb of Beirut who suffers from leukaemia, steps out the entrance of the Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Childhood cancer patients in Lebanon must battle disease while under fire

NOV. 26, 2024

OpenAI Transcription
Assistant professor of information science Allison Koenecke, an author of a recent study that found hallucinations in a speech-to-text transcription tool, works in her office at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. The text preceded by "#Ground truth" shows what was actually said while the sentences preceded by ""text"" was how the transcription program interpreted the words. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one said

NOV. 1, 2024

Canada Euthanasia-Doctors and Ethics
The Toronto skyline is seen from Wards Island in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)

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AP lands exclusive on Canadian doctors struggling with euthanizing vulnerable patients

OCT. 25, 2024

Nelly Shukuru, 51, hold the scarf she had planned on using to hang herself after spending three years displaced in the Lushagala camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Nelly Shukuru, 51, hold the scarf she had planned on using to hang herself after spending three years displaced in the Lushagala camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

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Years of war in Congo have created a dire mental health crisis. But little support is available

OCT. 16, 2024

The Toronto skyline is seen from Wards Island in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)
The Toronto skyline is seen from Wards Island in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)

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Private forums show Canadian doctors struggle with euthanizing vulnerable patients

OCT. 16, 2024

This photo combo shows 2024 Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine Gary Ruvkun, American molecular biologist, left, and Victor Ambros, professor of natural science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Newton, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
This photo combo shows 2024 Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine Gary Ruvkun, American molecular biologist, left, and Victor Ambros, professor of natural science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Newton, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Nobel Prize in medicine honors 2 scientists for their discovery of microRNA

OCT. 9, 2024

Condom Use
Condoms and other sexual wellness items are made available to students at the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht)

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Condoms aren’t a fact of life for young Americans. They’re an afterthought

OCT. 4, 2024

APTOPIX Congo Mpox Outbreak Epicenter
Emile Miango, 2, who has mpox, lies in the hospital, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Kamituga, South Kivu province, which is the epicenter of the world’s latest outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

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AP journalists are the first to show what’s happening in an mpox epicenter in Congo

SEPT. 27, 2024

Biden Emergency Abortions
FILE - Sacred Heart Emergency Center is pictured March 29, 2024, in Houston. The Biden administration is telling emergency room doctors they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman's health. That's following last week's 6-3 Supreme Court ruling that failed to settle a legal dispute over whether state abortion bans override the federal law that requires hospitals to stabilize patients. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

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Exclusive AP analysis finds hospitals are rarely penalized for violating federal law requiring them to treat pregnant patients in distress

SEPT. 20, 2024

APTOPIX Congo Mpox Outbreak Epicenter
Emile Miango, 2, who has mpox, lies in the hospital, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Kamituga, South Kivu province, which is the epicenter of the world’s latest outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

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A gold mining town in Congo has become an mpox hot spot as a new strain spreads

SEPT. 19, 2024

Be Well-Menopause Dental
FILE - A dentist holds a model of teeth and a toothbrush in Seattle on Aug. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

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Menopause can bring on dental problems, but you can protect your mouth

SEPT. 16, 2024

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